Happy (belated) New Year

The past three weeks have seen an invasion of my house by friends and family, the loss of approximately 130 sq feet to toy sets that don’t break down, a fondue party, a dead server at work, clogged water supply line (yeah, that’s a new one,) and a few work issues that have just tied me up, spanked me, and called me dirty names.

It’s been a bit dead around Pocketables, probably will be until the second week or so of January when temperatures soar to the low 30s and CES is over.

I’m working on a couple of reviews and a couple of how-tos in the meantime. If you have any questions or are wondering how things work feel free to drop a line, but here’s some of Paul’s upcoming which will be done when things settle down.

Gamevice review for the Note 8/S8/S8+. The gamevice is a little thing that gives you analog and digital controllers, sort of set up line a Playstation or XBox controller. You can see them here.

1go Go Play digital sound recorder. Basically a wearable that might get you studio quality sound for your videos. Waiting on a software update on this one. You can see the indiegogo campaign here.

MrMetacometThat is funny. I did a similar thing with the 15 month old granddaughter when she pops down to the "man cave"; my last sanctuary. There I have lots of cool stuff, but the best fun for her (and me)...

RockinRose WolfWe just got a good deal on Arlo Pro 2's on black Friday for a 4 pack only have one up for now. I want a good doorbell too that you don't have to pay a monthly fee. I hear Nest stuff is really good...

Paul MWhere possible I put smart devices onto a guest network - a separate VLAN on my switch and separate wifi SSID (I use Ubiquiti so I can have many virtual APs). I have strict firewall rules for OUTBOUND...

We won’t use #CRISPR to make super-smart #babies—but only because we can’t
#Gene experts speculate that our worst gene-editing fears won’t come true because they are too complex for us to pull them off. https://t.co/SOgPRyNVzg

FYI @att we've been messed up north Nashville and South Nashville with about 40% packet loss but perfect connectivity to next hop. for most of the morning. Been on with support who shows no outages anywhere (even though downdetector and your twitter tend to indicate outages)